Use charts to turn data into visual representations

- [Narrator] In the previous video,…we took a look at SmartArt inside of Microsoft Word,…and how we can use it to create images or illustrations…to help students learn.…In this video, I want to take a look at the Charts feature,…which allows you to take data,…and turn it into an illustration, a chart, or a graph,…again, to help improve understanding…and retention of a concept.…Now on this document is one of my favorite statistics…about communication.…It's a fact that I found in a great book by Eric Palmer,…titled Teaching the Core Skills of Listening and Speaking.…Now it seems like in schools,…we teach a lot of writing and reading.…

However, they only make up 9% and 16%…of the time that we spend communicating.…How much time do we really spend teaching students to speak,…or especially, listen?…In my opinion, just showing these numbers…isn't very impactful though.…I want to take this information…and put it into a more powerful visual representation.…So what I'm going to do is first make sure that my cursor…is where I would like this illustration to be.…